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Music Discussion => General Music Discussion => Topic started by: vulc44n on 2007-01-03 08:25:23

Title: Reliable source for Hi-Res album art
Post by: vulc44n on 2007-01-03 08:25:23
Does anyone happen to know of a reliable source for Hi-Res [500x500+] album art?  I've had hit and miss luck with tools that use amazon and google.  Anything else to try?
Title: Reliable source for Hi-Res album art
Post by: Acid8000 on 2007-01-03 08:47:51
Yes this would be useful. Occasionally I find there's no better source for high resolution art with some albums than the website of the artist that designed the cover. For example the site of Peter Saville (http://www.btinternet.com/~comme6/saville/).
Title: Reliable source for Hi-Res album art
Post by: LadFromDownUnder on 2007-01-03 09:04:38
Does anyone happen to know of a reliable source for Hi-Res [500x500+] album art?  I've had hit and miss luck with tools that use amazon and google.  Anything else to try?


Try Walmart (http://www.walmart.com).  They do 500x500 images.
Title: Reliable source for Hi-Res album art
Post by: LANjackal on 2007-01-03 09:08:02
Does anyone happen to know of a reliable source for Hi-Res [500x500+] album art?  I've had hit and miss luck with tools that use amazon and google.  Anything else to try?


Amazon has the largest consistent album art size, in my experience. In addition to the official store album art, the site allows users to upload their own, resulting in a few hi res specimens. Lossless album archives on P2P networks usually include scans. And there's also Google's image search.
Title: Reliable source for Hi-Res album art
Post by: ozmosis82 on 2007-01-03 09:33:47
iTunes (if you've got an iTunes account) has ~600 x 600 album art which is usually of excellent quality. Every now and again they've got some crappy ones. In that case, I check out Amazon.com and Google's image search.
Title: Reliable source for Hi-Res album art
Post by: vulc44n on 2007-01-03 12:01:52
iTunes (if you've got an iTunes account) has ~600 x 600 album art which is usually of excellent quality. Every now and again they've got some crappy ones. In that case, I check out Amazon.com and Google's image search.

Has anyone looked into integrating the itunes albumart functionality into a tool external to itunes?  Would this even be possible?
Title: Reliable source for Hi-Res album art
Post by: LANjackal on 2007-01-03 18:57:51
Has anyone looked into integrating the itunes albumart functionality into a tool external to itunes?  Would this even be possible?


The GodFather (http://users.otenet.gr/~jtcliper/tgf/) seems to fit the bill, for the most part...
Title: Reliable source for Hi-Res album art
Post by: Lynch on 2007-01-03 19:47:11
Although the quality varies, there's lots of cover art at www.discogs.com .
Title: Reliable source for Hi-Res album art
Post by: NogginJ on 2007-01-03 20:56:38
Has anyone looked into integrating the itunes albumart functionality into a tool external to itunes?  Would this even be possible?


The GodFather (http://users.otenet.gr/~jtcliper/tgf/) seems to fit the bill, for the most part...


i love the godfather. however, i think it only pulls from amazon, not itunes or walmart or anywhere else.

if anybody uses foobar i think the discogs plugin currently in development is very promising.
discussion of foo-discogs (http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=50523)
Title: Reliable source for Hi-Res album art
Post by: hibbsi on 2008-01-09 23:11:31
i found a pretty good place-
here (http://www.rhino.com/media/covers.lasso)

it may not have much, but the resolution is absolutely great. (some are over 1500*1500!)

EDIT-  Here's an example (http://www.rhino.com/media/covers/313148.jpg)  <good call d0ng  >
Title: Reliable source for Hi-Res album art
Post by: d0ng on 2008-01-09 23:41:07
I don't think its necessary to post up album art that is 1500x1500.  A link is all you need.
Title: Reliable source for Hi-Res album art
Post by: probedb on 2008-01-10 14:09:07
I'm seriously thinking about scanning my album covers in  Might take a while tho.....
Title: Reliable source for Hi-Res album art
Post by: grombulk on 2008-01-10 17:14:38
sshht, don't tell anyone (http://www.cover-paradies.to/)
Title: Reliable source for Hi-Res album art
Post by: TedFromAccounting on 2008-01-10 17:52:02
I believe that Album Art Downloader (http://sourceforge.net/projects/album-art) has been mentioned in various places here before.  It searches most sources for album art and displays them all, allowing you to sort by size and more.  Generally, it works well for me.

Another place that has good 500x500 is buy.com.  You have to mess with the site a little bit to be able to save the larger art though.  Example.  On this page (http://www.buy.com/prod/very-best-of-the-eagles-limited-edition/q/loc/109/60613387.html) you would click enlarge image, but when you try to right click on the image to save, it shrinks back down.  To save it, right click on the enlarge image link, select Copy Link Location, then paste it into your address bar.

The link looks like this when pasted
Code: [Select]
java script:largeIM2('http://ak.buy.com/db_assets/large_images/387/60613387.jpg');hide('ppForm')


Then just simply cut all of the javascript off, leaving only the link
Code: [Select]
http://ak.buy.com/db_assets/large_images/387/60613387.jpg

and there's your 500x500 album art.  I find that buy.com seems to be a little higher quality than amazon.
Title: Reliable source for Hi-Res album art
Post by: neothe0ne on 2011-07-20 19:11:47
bumpity-bump

Anyone know how to grab Amazon.co.jp's ~1600x1600 album art for select music?
e.g., http://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/B002YLVAWU/ (http://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/B002YLVAWU/)

Grabbing the album art through the "normal" Amazon URL only yields the ~500x500 jpg.